The online editorial staff comprises Betsy Shirley, Jenna Barnett, Josiah R. Daniels, Mitchell Atencio, Heather Brady, Kierra Bennning, and Zachary Lee.
Posts By This Author
Verse of the Day: 'I must decrease'
12-12-2008
He must increase, but I must decrease.
- John 3:30
Voice of the Day: Etty Hillesum
12-12-2008
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others.
Verse of the Day: 'Have we not all one father?'
12-11-2008
Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?
Voice of the Day: Jalaluddin Rumi
12-11-2008
You have spent your seeing, hearing, intelligence
and the pure celestial substances;
what have you purchased form the earth?
and the pure celestial substances;
what have you purchased form the earth?
Verse of the Day: 'Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!'
12-10-2008
Then turning to the disciples, Jesus said to them privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!
Voice of the Day: Alice Walker
12-10-2008
So let me tell you: I intend to protect my home. Praying -- not a curse -- only the hope that my courage will not fail my love.
Verse of the Day: 'Righteousness and peace will kiss each other'
12-09-2008
Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet;
righteousness and peace will kiss each other.
Faithfulness will spring up from the ground,
righteousness and peace will kiss each other.
Faithfulness will spring up from the ground,
Voice of the Day: Seamus Heaney
12-09-2008
Call the miracle self-healing:
The utter self-revealing
double-take of feeling.
If there's fire on the mountain
Or lightning and storm
The utter self-revealing
double-take of feeling.
If there's fire on the mountain
Or lightning and storm
Verse of the Day: 'The unjust knows no shame'
12-08-2008
The officials within it are roaring lions;
its judges are evening wolves
that leave nothing until the morning.
its judges are evening wolves
that leave nothing until the morning.
Voice of the Day: Nellie McClung
12-08-2008
It is so much easier sometimes to sit down and be resigned than to rise up and be indignant.
Verse of the Day: 'I have avoided the ways of the violent'
12-05-2008
If you try my heart, if you visit me by night,
if you test me, you will find no wickedness in me;
my mouth does not transgress.
if you test me, you will find no wickedness in me;
my mouth does not transgress.
Voice of the Day: Martin Luther King Jr.
12-05-2008
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong.
Verse of the Day: 'Here are my mother and my brothers!'
12-04-2008
Pointing to his disciples, [Jesus] said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."
Voice of the Day: Mother Teresa
12-04-2008
I believe in person to person; every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
Verse of the Day: 'Better is a little with righteousness'
12-03-2008
Better is a little with righteousness
than large income with injustice.
than large income with injustice.
- Proverbs 16:8
Voice of the Day: Satish Kumar
12-03-2008
Lead me from death to life,
from falsehood to truth.
Lead me from despair to hope,
from fear to trust.
Lead me from hate to love,
from falsehood to truth.
Lead me from despair to hope,
from fear to trust.
Lead me from hate to love,
Verse of the Day: 'Those who oppress the hired workers'
12-02-2008
I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the w
Voice of the Day: Dorothy Day
12-02-2008
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Voice of the Day: T.S. Eliot
12-01-2008
You are not here to verify,
Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity
Or carry report. You are here to kneel
Where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more
Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity
Or carry report. You are here to kneel
Where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more
Verse of the Day: 'The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field'
12-01-2008
The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.